Re: ActiveX Not Working After KB896688 (MS05-052)

Hi, I'm not sure if you will know the answer, but here goes. I'm worried
about todays announcement on "Marketplace," a program on NPRadio. I only
heard the tail end of it, but it was about a new flaw in microsoft operating
system that will probably allow viruses and all manner of bad things to
affect our computers. They are frantically working on a patch, but that is
all I know. Do you know about this?
Thanks, JB
--
JB


"kgstrong" wrote:

> Lawrence Garvin [MVP] wrote:
> > What the current patch does is plug a security hole that's existed for a
> > very long time, and that several applications have "taken advantage" of.
> >
> > It's not Microsoft hat needs to come out with an alternative patch, but the
> > application developers to rewrite their applicatons to operate in the now
> > /secured/ mode.
> >
>
> Uh, EXCUSE ME, but the main applications that do not work after KB896688
> are MICROSOFT UPDATE and ADD/REMOVE Programs!!!
>
> The dimwits at Microsoft need to clean up their own act before they
> inflict their incompetence on the rest of us. They publish insecure
> software and then blame everyone else for their mistakes!
>
> MVP, my ass!
>

See this thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...10f8a4268ac0d1
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

accursed B wrote:
> Hi, I'm not sure if you will know the answer, but here goes. I'm worried
> about todays announcement on "Marketplace," a program on NPRadio. I only
> heard the tail end of it, but it was about a new flaw in microsoft
> operating system that will probably allow viruses and all manner of bad
> things to affect our computers. They are frantically working on a patch,
> but that is all I know. Do you know about this?
> Thanks, JB
>
> > Lawrence Garvin [MVP] wrote:
> > > What the current patch does is plug a security hole that's existed
> > > for a very long time, and that several applications have "taken
> > > advantage" of.
> > >
> > > It's not Microsoft hat needs to come out with an alternative patch,
> > > but the application developers to rewrite their applicatons to
> > > operate in the now /secured/ mode.
> > >
> >
> > Uh, EXCUSE ME, but the main applications that do not work after KB896688
> > are MICROSOFT UPDATE and ADD/REMOVE Programs!!!
> >
> > The dimwits at Microsoft need to clean up their own act before they
> > inflict their incompetence on the rest of us. They publish insecure
> > software and then blame everyone else for their mistakes!
> >
> > MVP, my ass!

PS: That clip on Marketplace was unnecessarily alarming & sensational IMO,
and the guy who's soundbite they used has a big ol' chip on his shoulder.

accursed B wrote:
> Hi, I'm not sure if you will know the answer, but here goes. I'm worried
> about todays announcement on "Marketplace," a program on NPRadio. I only
> heard the tail end of it, but it was about a new flaw in microsoft
> operating system that will probably allow viruses and all manner of bad
> things to affect our computers. They are frantically working on a patch,
> but that is all I know. Do you know about this?